Marine convicted of conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian gets sent home

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20108787/


Marine corporal Friday to time served and reduced his rank to private for conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian during a frustrated search for an insurgent.

Cpl. Marshall Magincalda, 24, who has already served 448 days in custody, was the second of the eight-member squad implicated in the April 2006 slaying in the town of Hamdania to escape serving additional prison time.

Magincalda, who was to be freed Friday, was acquitted of murder but also found guilty of larceny and housebreaking, and cleared of making a false official statement.